The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-06-19

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decide what cigarmakers would do. or relegate
the power Of fixing rules and prices for the
cigar trade to q committee Of brakemen, truck
mon. and shoemakers. The test Of the power
OF the District Assembly against q union came
In square fight. and the blue label OF the In
transitional CiGarmakers' Union won. The
almost in a body. and. under an In
dependent existence, the union has In
creased In prosperity and strength. Where 1t
had $4,000 members auxiliary to the Knights,
It has 900 under its own control. The ON
GERS now are cigarmakers. The rules OF the
union are made by cigarmakers for Cigar
makers. A similar fight Is coming on between
the carpet workers Assembly 1875 and the
Knights Of Labor. only In this case the Knights
OF Labor have used different weapons. In the
cigarmakers' fight the District Assembly tried
to fill the shops which the members OF the
Cigarmakers' International Union vacated. 1t
failed because there were not enough good
eigarmakers in the Knights OF Labor faction
to do one-flfth Of the work in the shops where
the International Union had been. In the
present carpet workers fight the proportion Of
workingmen to stick by their tradesfellows Is
larger than in the cigarmakers' fight. So the
Knights OF Labor have tried the new scheme Of
boycotting the employers Of these union men.
Eorif the employers are successfully boycotted,
the product OF their factory will be decreased
and the hated union men will be discharged
from employment through lack Of work. and
must either become Knights Of Labor or have
no work. Whatever the result may be in the
sense Of wages and hours to the workmen. the
Knights of Labor must rule, and the union
must be minor and weak organization or the
smployers.of the union men are boycotted.
It Is not only in New York that this merci-
less conhict between the Knights OF Labor.
through their Executive Board. and the indi-
vidual assemblies composed of union men or
the trades unions themselves has been going
on. The coal miners. the coke men. and the
iron workingmen have had their taste OF 1t,
with the result that some 10000 men are veer-
ing from the knights Of Labor and dropping
their membership in their assemblies to give
their whole strength to their union. The Anal
gamated Association Of Iron and Steel Workers
and the Amalgamated Federation OF Coal
Miners lost their love for the Knights OF Labor
when Mr. Bailey Of the Executive Board went
into their territory and octed against the wishes
Of the men and without q good insight into the
business Of the trade, but according to the
standards Of the part Of the Executive Board
that was represented by himself.
This is not an active warfare Of unions
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are disintegrating. The members OF the knights e
Of Labor being Workingimen. are employed IN n
knowledge greater or less. Their interest Is
primarily in their trade, secondarily in their
IL rs trade
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trades up and punched them as ships gather In
. squadron or q number Of tows start together
70 part Company and 60 OF By themselves. each
to Its own port and In Its own way; That Is
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that the Rnichts Of Labor have disliked and
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lance OF the order OF Knights.
Cd By the leaders q hive Of the. great trades
nsns G as q
SIf, # which bslonss primss;ily and indepen-
a soas q Knights
then, the number, Of members In each trade
has increased, and the number IN the knights
%. Labor has a6 In May
ss,ed through aSsi their IN. ons ip the A%ercaa
Knights Of Labor among those same persons
only some 800. 900. The loss has been over q
hhird and what the knights Of Labor M have lost
has been the sainer thereby, II the. present ten
hes Been by sv shs Sun
ppoycott and the carpet workers boycott, con-
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ills not asserted that the number Of Knights
within the last year. for accessions, have been
teeeiyed from other sources: especially from the
nsHds and %orkmen OF the South ana thS
" the heads OF the different trades unions and
oSfH5ined and estimated Independently by the
P Nv ne humber OF trades .unionists who have
% ussa a. 10000 giving as their own the g
This trades union revival began In May.
hso1 Before the Cleveland Convention of the
i eraHa q Labor call was issued for q con,
t Ie ddone TO secure the Independence Of each
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n noh o. Iron and Steel Workers: p. F. Fitz-
So ,rick OF Ctncinnati. President Of the Iron
tbn ,9paelhhia, then Of Cleveland. Secretary OF
David fPP'qRs nlso 81 Carpenters and Joiners:
4 tne International Typographical Union, and
teTnational Union va" o'H"- -
az aceoIdance with that call conference of
Ensti2pal traass unions WAS 6eid IA the bon